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Provied an intercolonial government and a system for recruting troops and collecting taxes from various colonies for their common defense.
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Provoked by the French when building a chain of efforts along the Ohio River Valley
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Pursued a Colonial policy aimed at solving Britains domestic financial problems.
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Required colonies to provide food and living quarters for British solders stationed in the colonies.
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Required revenue stamps be placed on most printed papers in the colonies.
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Representatives from nine colonies met in New York that resolved that only their own elected representatives had legal authority to approve taxes.
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Parliament enacted new duties to be collected on colonial imports of tea, glass and paper.
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Guards fired into crowd and killed five people including and African American, Crispus Attucks and were acquitted.
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Bostonians disguised themselves as Native Americans and went onto ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into harbor.
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A law organizing the Canadian lands gained from France.
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Wanted to protest parliamentry intrusions on their rights and restore the relationship with the crown that had existed before the French and Indian war.
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British Government enacte da series of punitive acts (Coercive Acts), together witha separate act dealing with French Canada ( Quebec Acts)
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Delegates thought colonies should declare independence and others hoped to resolve by negotiating new relationship with Great Britain.
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Plan to protect the powers of the individual states.
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States that all men are created equal; life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness are the unalienable rights.
